Continuing the reveal build up along the road to release, we now have gameplay of two high level Red Hood builds for open world action roleplaying game Gotham Knights.

One of those is not what we expected.

Before we dive into specifics, three general points of interest.

Confirmation of what most would have guessed - Red Hood is their most range focused character.

All of the Knights have melee and ranged weapons but Red Hood's character in the comics is all about his guns.

We don't know if this feature had been confirmed or not, but for the first time we see two of the same Knights - Red Hood - playing together.

Games with a character roster like Gotham Knights sometimes don't allow duplicates in multiplayer.

Multiverse and other uncommon circumstances aside, there's only one Red Hood.

Finally while there are just the four playable characters each can be played many different ways.

Build One - Marksman Tree

The Marksman tree is self-explanatory and boosts his ranged damage.

Ability wise we see the soul energy green chain damage ranged ability shown in previous trailers.

There's also a leap into the air, pause and fire down a stream of bullets attack but we don't know if this is an ability or a just this character's jump attack.

Build Two - Brawler Tree

The Brawler tree is about melee combat and powering up the fact that Red Hood is their largest character who possesses the best grab-and-throw mechanics.

It's a brutal hand-to-hand tree.

Having said that they don't demonstrate his grab-and-throw here so there is more to the tree.

In previous gameplay we see him use a grab-and-throw which attaches a bomb to enemies which he can then shoot to explode.

Demonstrated but not named here is a glowing purple hands (as opposed to greenish soul energy) ability which lasts for 30 seconds.

He appears to be doing lightning melee and ranged damage both before and after this ability is activated and wears off.

We are guessing that the purple / lightning is a damage type attached to his weapons (or their ammunition) and this unnamed Brawler ability is a damage buff .

Another guess - the purple colour of the buff is inherited from his weapon damage type.

While it's active and again while not, he also does a soul jump greenish dash attack.

Commenting on this character's earlier trailer in relation to his description on the official website which lacks any mention of magic we expressed doubt about the developers' commitment to his magic side.

The build demonstrated here looks like a full-blown, very flashy beefy gun mage.

So that's that.

IGN promise more details about skill trees later in the week, though Amazon UK beat them to it with a possibly unintended early reveal of Nightwing's skills.

Gotham Knights will release on PC, Xbox and PlayStation on October 25.

[ Main Image: Gotham Knights Red Hood Builds trailer. Credit: IGN via YouTube. ]

References

IGN (August 16, 2022). Gotham Knights: Gameplay of 2 High-Level Red Hood Builds - IGN First. YouTube.

Skrebels, Joe (August 16, 2022). Gotham Knights: Gameplay of 2 High-Level Red Hood Builds - IGN First. IGN.